Gun Violence Prevention: Programs and Strategies

More than two decades of gun research and intervention programs have identified strategies that — if implemented properly — can reduce gun violence within a given community.

Prevention programs include:

• Operation Ceasefire
• Directed Police Patrols
• Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI)
• Project Safe Neighborhoods

Prevention strategies include:

• Problem Solving
• Federal-Local Collaboration
• Action Research
• Identifying Hot Spots and Chronic Offenders
• Focused Deterrence